Edinburg teacher to retire after 42 years with school district
Susan Smith, the Edinburg school district’s retiring audio video production teacher, remembers one student in particular during her 42 years with the district.
Smith, who taught journalism for seven years before switching to audio video production, said she had the student in her first period class, that is whenever he bothered to show up. The poor kid just couldn’t wake up in time.
Not a morning person herself, Smith was sympathetic. One day she had a chat with the kid. Read more at The Monitor.com.
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